Nuclear disarmament starts here | Socialist Action 1983

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Crushed back from the South Atlantic to produce this little number.

'I've tried to produce a personal report for uncommitted viewers rather than a propaganpolemic against the disarmers, whines Hastings.

Heroically brushing aside bias Max goes on to Heseltine, George Bush, right wing protessor Michael Howard, variou US generals Reagan's former coordinator, all of whom denv that the American Administration believe winnable nuclear wars.

With 'personal reports' like this, who needs propaganda! Published by CND Publications. 40p THIRTY EIGHT YEARS ago the Americans dropped a small bomb Japanese city called Hiroshima.

Within seconds 70,000 people died. The final count showed that 200,000 people died.

Today a Polaris missile submarine can wipe out more people than all the bombs dropped in the last war. There is no detence at all against megadeath that's a word the military coined for describing the death of a million people by the explosion a single weapon.

you live in Britain the prospect of megadeath is a real one. We have — or ment has - - more than 100 nuclear base here. So if there is a nuclear war then our opponents would concentrate on us.

Emergency services would disappear. Injured victims would lie dying of lack of attention, thirst, starvation, cold burns. Epidemic would sweep through the cities the towns. Getting blown to hell is an expensive business. Every WCEK toes out e Bo as heek to British family forks pay for our programme and Trident will cost £10,000 million.

This pamphlet lists in a clear readable way all these horrific which need for the canthe pub; teen: arguing 1r moving a resolution at the trade union branch or taking on we right wing your So buy it. also says: 'We might need NO LUV- THIS IS HUMAN SCRAPHEAP IS OVER THERE! fighter patrol boats, small submarines, helicopters and small non-nuclear; missiles.' It also thinks: 'We alice armec forces Here I part ways. The facts yes, the conclusions We should be putting 10. across what nuclear war will mean to the majority UNEM of people in this country that's a bloody painful death But we should also be explaining , that, Thatcher and her man Mr Heseltine having their finger on the nuclear button, we are also opposed to them having their hands on any weapons at all.

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Socialist Action 15 April 1983 • Benefit for Greenham Common Women. April, 8pm, at Apples & The Roebuck pub. • Turkey - an evening of solidarity. Organised b Tower Hamlets trades

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